Originally Posted by slim_slag
Ubuntu.....required me to manually mount the drive. It picked up all my obscure hardware, but not the drive! What sort of nonsense is that? They say it's for my safety, which is rather 'we know best', but if they keep that up then ubuntu will never become mainstream. Very few people are going to be able to mount a drive using a command shell.
New shiny Breezy just mounts them, and the end up quite nicely in the Places menu next the the System menu... There's a nice GUI for mounting drives. Even Apple makes you mount drives (though you can automate it). Suppose you have a string of drives - do you want the OS to chunter along mounting each one on boot? Then people would complain about THAT.
Originally Posted by slim_slag
And microsoft probably is a nasty company which wants its domination to last for as long as possible, but they are all like that. If you worry about big companies keeping tabs on where you are and what you do, you should bin your mobile phone and credit cards. They know far more about you than microsoft.
True enough, but that's not the point.